nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
What that "primer" doesn't mention is the vague wording of the antitrust statutes, consequent extensive, confusing, and outright contradictory case law surrounding antitrust, the added complexities when it's mixed with employment law, the d
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by nknight 15y ago
Just because you can recover damages against someone in civil litigation doesn't mean they've committed a crime. What actual crime do you believe has been committed?
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by nknight 15y ago
You know those same capabilities are included for free with every modern operating system, right?
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by nknight 15y ago
At the scales he's talking about, 10gbps uplinks are easily available. That said, the killer isn't the equipment costs, it's the people.
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by nknight 15y ago
Well, the lumping together of WoW and Farmville is pretty bizarre and makes me think you have no idea what these games are actually like. Reminds me of Tipper Gore. Then you go on to say "we agree the gambling industry needs checks and bala
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by nknight 15y ago
> You could argue Tiny Tower ripped off Sim Tower etc. About the only thing Tiny Tower and SimTower have in common is the word "Tower".
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by nknight 15y ago
The longest contempt detention I'm aware of was a very bizarre case involving a guy named Richard Fine who was jailed for something less than 18 months. It was a civil case, and as far as I know he never argued that the information he was b
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by nknight 15y ago
We'll figure out how to read people's minds before some TLA brute-forces a volume encrypted with layered AES-Twofish-Serpent. If you're going that far, you might as well just dump the 5th Amendment now.
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by nknight 15y ago
If someone has evidence on their encrypted drive that could put them away for life or a large portion thereof, or even trigger a capital case, the fine or few years of time behind bars for whatever piddly-ass crap the prosecutor can dig up
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by nknight 15y ago
If your ISP offers you email service and you take advantage of it, you aren't asking it to just be a big dumb pipe. ISPs do nothing of the sort when you get your email through third-party providers like gmail, which people obviously do not
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by nknight 15y ago
> What actually happens is the prosecutor tells the court that they have X, Y, and Z evidence, which indicates the existence of W evidence, even though they can't actually get hold of W evidence. Then they don't charge you for W eviden
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by nknight 15y ago
The reputation of "legalese" is really a cultural artifact we forgot to forget. Back when Men were Men and the masses were somewhere between illiterate and "see spot run", the man on the street wouldn't have had much chance of understanding
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by nknight 15y ago
You're actually linking to the old policy, the new one is here and will go into effect in March: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/ It's actually longer than the "existing" policy, but covers a lot more of Google's services u
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by nknight 15y ago
If you mix a little red in with a little blue, you start shifting it out of "blue", but it's not abruptly "not blue". No significant political party or other large group in history has ever demanded perfect adherence by all members to all a
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by nknight 15y ago
This is a very clear and compelling (so to speak) way of thinking about the problem, and one I don't think I've ever heard before. Is this an independent invention of yours or is there literature to be found on the "rag doll" model?
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by nknight 15y ago
But if you've done it right, they can't prove it. In US law, you can't convict someone criminally because you suspect they're withholding information, you have to be able to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
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by nknight 15y ago
In civil cases, once you know or have reasonable cause to suspect a court case is imminent, you're technically supposed to act to preserve evidence, and not doing so can lead to sanctions, even if the evidence was destroyed as part of routi
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by nknight 15y ago
> post by the Product VP for Google+ This is kind of the point, actually. Or perhaps a side-effect of it. You (that is, Googlers in general) live in a bubble where that sort of information becomes common knowledge. You have large quan
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by nknight 15y ago
If I have a nude photograph of someone, does that mean I've already raped them?
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by nknight 15y ago
I have Asperger's Syndrome. This rests on something hazily known as the autism spectrum. It sits alongside other disorders such as Autism and Rett syndrome. There are millions of people with such disorders. Although we all have what you mig
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by nknight 15y ago
Since that's been the problem the whole time , why is the supposed magical "it's fixed!" announcement buried in some unofficial comment? Google isn't exactly a babe in the woods anymore, they know better than this, why is everything around
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by nknight 15y ago
So Google suddenly can't handle some spam filtering? If I go log into my gmail account right now, am I going to find all the spam dumped in my inbox? And has the webspam team resigned en masse? Where did this sudden bout of incompetence com
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by nknight 15y ago
As a non-politician with no connection to politics other than as a voter, I have consistently encountered material differences in my rights and standard of living depending on which party was in power. Your "politicians are all the same" me
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by nknight 15y ago
I loathe companies that do this. It's deceptive and inefficient. Don't lie about your prices, and don't give breaks to people that intentionally cost you more by taking up the time of a sales agent.
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by nknight 15y ago
> That may be true in the US to some extent Considering these are US companies making an agreement about US employees, where else is relevant? > Corporations are simply property in this case, preventing corporations from making t
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by nknight 15y ago
Branch predictors have for years been accurate enough that the right thing is to not worry about a pipeline flush until you actually encounter a high miss rate. By the way, on the latest CPUs, they're not just "cheap" -- cmp is actually as
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by nknight 15y ago
Range checks aren't limited to HTTP requests, they're a highly generic construct. Novices will pick up this bad habit and use it elsewhere, including in tight loops, not understanding that it's a serious mistake.
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by nknight 15y ago
Scary snippet, really. Besides requiring you to stop and think about its implications, division is historically slow. On the various x86 CPUs of the past ~20 years, it's taken anywhere from 15 to 80 cycles. Compares are reliably cheap (1-2
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by nknight 15y ago
You keep talking about "employers", but that isn't what you mean, and it's dishonest. The generic "employer" has few restrictions at all. In most jurisdictions, I am quite free, as an individual acting in my personal capacity, to hire and f
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by nknight 15y ago
You seem to be stuck on the idea that there's some sort of legally-enforceable trademark at issue, but you've provided no evidence of it. To even begin to claim a trademark, you must assert it, and I see no evidence of anyone asserting such

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